The Russellville Democrat., 1887-09-07


| Shanghai says: There is strenuous oppo-
stion to the new banking syndicate. The
| college OF censors has presented a memo
| rial to the throne against the scheme d.i
Hung Chang is almost alone in supporting
| it. The project even If sanctioned will prob
| ably be modified"
THE town Of Boppard, on the Rhine, was
partially destroyed by fire The other day,
| and large nnrnhns. 81 persons were left
withe..::te l.sssifnes.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Express Com
| pany's bl siness has been sold to the United
| States Express Company. Jay Gould is
| SAID to be the real purchaser, and reports
| state that Garrett has also sold the Balti-
more Il Ohio railroad and telegraph, or
placed the propeSty in the hands of the
| Drexel, Morgan a. Co. syndicate, being
| hard up for money.
| PRINCE NAPOLEON and Prince Victor have
written to ex-Empress Eugene asking to
| be excused from attending the transfer Of
| the remains of Napoleon III. and the Prince
! Imperial from Chiselhurst to Farm borough
| on the ground that it would be impolitic
| for the father and son to meet each other.
| 1T is announced that I. V. Powderly, gen
| eral master workman of the Knights OF
! Labor, will go to Ireland in October to
take an active part in the national move.
ment
| PRAyzINI, the murderer of Mime. Reg
naxlt, her maid and a child, was executed
| at Paris on the 3lst. He struggled desper-
ately with his executioners before being
| guillotined. bowling and disorderly mob
| was present.
| JupeE ZuBIA assaulted Consul Brigham
at Paso del Norte, Mexico on the 30th by
striking him with a cane. Zubia claimed
to have been insulted.
The Bank of England has advanced its
rate of discount from three TO four per
cent.
THE Pope has received $4,000 contribu-
tions, to be devoted to paying the expenses
Of his jubilee mass.
FIRE in Cairo, Egypt, the other day de-
| stroyed block in the center of the town,
causing heavy loss
| PRINCE BISMARCK has instructed the pro-
| vincial governments Of Germany to pro-
mote the interests Of trade guilds
| THE propeller Jay Gould, bound for
| Chicago, run aground on the west end of
Bos Blanc island the other morning IN a
dense fog.
| SEVERAL Russians were killed at Kashgar
recently during riot occasioned, it was
said, by insults offered to Mohammedan
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| to Khokand.
! The vapor stove makers are contemplat-
| ing move to form trust company.
| MAIL advices indicate that the troubles in
Havana were not so serious as reported by
| telegraph.
| THE Papal Envoy at Tipperary recently
said the Pope loved Ireland and would do
| all in his power to aid in the prosperity of
| the country
| THE French Government has decided to
| prosecute the Figaro for publishing details
| of the mobilization scheme.
| By collision between the British
steamers Salisbury and John Adamson at
| Antwerp the other day both were badly
damaged.
| BY an outbreak of trichinosis in Bruins
wick, Germany, sixty persons have been
affected and five have died.
THE Socialists of the Hague gave fete
! on the I'd in honor OF Nleuwenhuis. who had
been released from prison. A collision with
the police took place, and in the melee
| a few persons were injured. Several ar
| rests were made.
| BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) during
| the seven days ended September numbered
for the United States 175, for Canada "a,
| total 1899, compared with lS5 the previous
| WICK, anu lVO AOI tLC Corresponding WSSH
last year.
| AN American schooner fishing inside the
| Canadian limits has been captured near
| Campobella, N. b.
HENRY TAYLOR, ex-president of the Bank
of London and president of the Ontario In
vestment Association Of London, Ont, was
arrested in that city on the I'd. The cause
| Of his arrest was not made public.
| EMPEROR WILLIAM had a fall after the
parade of the guards on the I'd. He was
| only slightly shaken, but much alarm was
| felt.
THE Gar has recovered the use of his
left arm, which was alleged to have been
disabled by rheumatism.
THE Steele announces the issue OF great
loan to transform the floating debt and the
| old four and half per cent. rentes of France
into perpetual three per cents, in order to
provide resources for the extraordinary
| budget OF 1883 and for the conversion of
debts which the State may be called upon
to pay at short notice
| A BELGIAN officer and an A merican doc
| tor, taking notes on the ambulance system,
were arrested at Toulouse, France, the
other day on suspicion of being spies.